Different Tribes of Tripura

Tripura a hilly State in the North-Eastern region of India is the homeland of different tribes. Altogether there are 19 (nineteen) tribes in the State. They could be divided into 2(two) major groups as (i) Ab-original and (ii) Immigrants.

All the aboriginal tribes have been migrated in this territory from a place in-between Tibbet, up hills of Burma like Arakan Hills Tracts and Shan State and adjacent to China.

Ab-original tribes are Tripuri, Reang, Jamatia, Noatia, Lusai, Uchai, Chaimal, Halam, Kukis, Garos, Mog and Chakma.

Other tribes like Bill, Munda, Orang, Santal, Lepcha, Khasia, Bhutias are the immigrant tribes came and settled here for economic reasons. Most of them are Central Indian Tribes and came from Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Orissa and West Bengal. Some of these tribes are however Northern-Frontier tribes came from Bhutan, Meghalaya, Sikkim and North Ben-gal. Chakmas and Mogs are Arakan Tribes entered Tripura through Chittagang Hills Tracts.

Linguistically tribes of Tripura could be divided into 3(three) groups:-

(i) Bodo Groups, (ii) Kuki-Chin Groups and (iii) Arakan Groups.

Tripuri, Reang, Jamatia, Uchai and Noatias are Mongoloid tribes and belong to Bodo linguistic group of tribes.

Kukis, Lusai and most of the tribes under Halam tribes are linguistically belongs to Kuki-Chin group and speak in Kuki-chin language.

Mog and Chakmas speak in Arakan Language. By religion, most of the Tripura tribes follow Hinduism. But Lusai-Kukis are mostly Christian. Chakmas and Mogs follow Buddhism.